States: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

827. Parcels for despatch to foreign offices must be entered on the respective parcel-bills in order of receipt and placed among the other parcels awaiting despatch: those for—

United Kingdom on C. & F. P.P. 12C.
Ceylon
India
Hong Kong
Tonga
Samoa (Apia) all on C. & F. P.P. 12D.
United States of America on C. & F. P.P. 12B.
Other places on C. & F. P.P. 12 and 12A.

828. Each parcel must be legibly entered on the parcel-bill, and the address stated as fully as possible. The parcel-bill must be in triplicate—one copy (with the receptacle-list in the case of London) to accompany the mail, another to be enclosed in an envelope and forwarded by mail to office of address, and the third sent to the Inspector of Post-offices with a copy of the receptacle-list. In the cases of Cape Town and Durban, however, four copies of the parcel-bills are to be made out, three copies being forwarded to destinations. Parcel-bills should be numbered consecutively, beginning with No. 1 in each year, and supplementary mails are always to bear the next consecutive number to that of the main mail. A parcel-post address label is to be affixed to each receptacle. On parcel-bills which provide three rate-columns parcels not over 3 lb. in weight are to be entered in the first column, over 3 lb. but not over 7 lb. in the second, and over 7 lb. but not over 11 lb. in the third column. In the case of transit parcels the rate-columns are to be left blank.

829. All parcel-mails for London must be accompanied by a receptacle-list, C. & F. P.P. 4, and a way-bill, C. & F. P.P. 11, copies of which must be sent to the Inspector of Post-offices.

830. A ticket, C. & F. P.P. 21, must be enclosed in every receptacle despatched, and must be so placed as to be immediately found on opening the same. As these tickets are for the purpose of facilitating the checking of mails on arrival, no receptacle should be despatched without one.

831. For parcel-mails to countries beyond the Dominion other than the United Kingdom and Australia, despatching offices should each set apart a certain number of hampers to be exclusively used for such mails, stencil them with their initial letter, and number them in a single series. Thus, hampers should be stencilled—

By Auckland .. N.Z., A 1, A 2, &c.
By Invercargill .. N.Z., B 1, B 2, &c. (B representing Bluff).
By Wellington .. N.Z., W 1, W 2, &c.

The stencilling should appear prominently on the outside of hampers. The above offices should keep records to show what class of hampers each number represents, so that its description may be furnished in case of loss.

832. All hampers used for parcel-mails to countries beyond the Dominion (as well as ‘empties’ returned to countries of origin) must be advised at the left-hand bottom corner of parcel-bills by their stencil marks and numbers. When returned to New Zealand hampers will be similarly entered, but if not so entered by the foreign office the receiving officer in New Zealand must supply the omission.